Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
Thomas Jefferson (1926). “The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government, with an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard”
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